All Roads Photography 2010 Awardees

Patrol Boat, Kashmir

Photograph by Sumit Dayal

In 2010, three photographers— Rashid Talukder (Bangladesh), Tomás Munita (Chile), and Sumit Dayal (Kashmir)—were honored by the National Geographic All Roads Photography Awards. The Photography Program is part of the All Roads Film Project, a National Geographic program dedicated to providing a platform for indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture storytellers from around the world to showcase their works to promote knowledge, dialogue, and understanding with a broader, global audience.

This gallery features the winning photographers' images, which reveal their unique perspectives about their changing worlds, documenting experiences from the past or present-day complexities.

Pictured above: A Central Reserve Police Force soldier patrols Dal Lake at dawn. Half a million Indian troops patrol the Kashmir Valley, one of the world's most militarized zones. March 2009.

Floating Market, Kashmir

Photograph by Sumit Dayal

At dawn, hundreds of vendors carrying produce congregate at the floating vegetable market in Dal Lake. February 2009.

Winter, Kashmir

Photograph by Sumit Dayal

A couple walks along the Srinagar-Gulmarg highway on a cold winter morning. Winters in Kashmir are long and harsh. The main Valley of Kashmir is a low-lying fertile region, surrounded by magnificent mountains and fed by many rivers. It is renowned for its natural beauty and quaint lifestyle. January 2009.

Youm-e-Ashoura, Kashmir

Photograph by Sumit Dayal

Invoking Muhammad's martyred grandson, cries of "Ya Hussein" fill the air as thousands of Shia Muslims in Srinagar celebrate Youm-e-Ashoura—the tenth and most sacred day of Muharram. Shia Muslims are a minority community in Kashmir. January 2009.

Cleansing of the Canals Festival, Chile

Photograph by Tomás Munita

Farmers from Toconce, a village that has partly sold its water, pray before an offering to Pachamama (Mother Earth) at the cleansing of the canals festival. During the event, men shovel mud from the canals. The work is now largely symbolic—improved canals and the scarcity of water have left little mud to shovel. Still, the festival provides a rare occasion for villagers to reunite, most of them having moved to the city.

Storm Clouds, Chile

Photograph by Tomás Munita

Near Caspana, clouds form before a rare downpour. Rain once fell here each summer. After eight years of complete drought, rain arrived two months late and lasted only minutes.

Garlic Harvesting, Chile

Photograph by Tomás Munita

Ana Anza, 65, harvests garlic in Caspana, in northern Chile's Atacama Desert. She works the land in one of the very few desert villages where the indigenous Atacameños have protected their rights to clean water. In this oasis village along the Casapana River, agricultural use has successfully won over the mining industry’s immense thirst.

Mining Camp, Chile

Photograph by Tomás Munita

The Chilean desert and highlands are littered with abandoned mining towns. Near the Bolivian border, the volcano Aucanquilcha looms over the remains of Buenaventura, which operated as a sulfur-mining camp through most of the 20th century.

War Training, Bangladesh

Photograph by Rashid Talukder

University of Dhaka students train, in Dhaka, for the Liberation War. 1970.

Student Protest, Bangladesh

Photograph by Rashid Talukder

During the noncooperation movement in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), a procession of students march in Dhaka, the capital. 1970.

Bayoneting, Bangladesh

Photograph by Rashid Talukder

Days after the Bangladesh Liberation War, Kaderia Bahini guerrillas (also called Kadar's Army) led by Kader Siddiqui publicly bayonet a Pakistani collaborator (called Rajakar within the region) in Dhaka. December 1971.

Bangladesh Wetland

Photograph by Rashid Talukder

Rural residents fishing by traditional techniques—usually done during the dry winter season—in a wetland near Konabari in the Gazipur District of central Bangladesh. 1980s.